Seeds of Resistance: Photography as Spiritual Practice
With Emilie Bouvier
July 30 - August 4, 2023
This class will explore photographic processes as practice for reflection and resilience. Rooted at the intersections of justice movements, spiritual grounding, and creative expression, we will delve into process-oriented methods for making photographs.
Using a variety of techniques, ranging from historic process to cellphones and printmaking to collage, we will explore the interplay of light/shadow, water/material, and digital/analogue. Weaving together photographic processes, stories, and reflective prompts, we will talk of ancestors and watersheds, ash and seeds, civil rights, sacred glimmers, vulnerability, and contemplative resistance.
Each day learning a new method for creating or working with photographs, we will cultivate series of small prints, layered elements, and writing. Every technique becomes a practice that invites new exploration and reflection, culminating in a final collage piece that reflects the journey. Together we will approach image-making as a practice to tend our roots and ground ourselves in justice-seeking, contemplation, curiosity, and healing.
About the Faculty
Emilie Bouvier
Emilie Bouvier is an artist and community organizer in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Emilie works in historic/alternative process photography and clay, finding her practice fueled by the process-oriented nature of these mediums. She is drawn to the places where land history, story, and spiritual/theological traditions meet – and how those intersections can open up through image-making. […]
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